i went to MIT and studied abroad at cambridge for a year and the biggest cultural difference was that at MIT people competed to signal that they were working as hard as possible - "i stayed up until 3am" etc. - and at cambridge people competed to signal that they did not workhttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1186084266553143297 …
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the ideal at cambridge was to look like you spent 0% of your time studying and 100% of your time drinking but still make it through school somehow. i really did not expect this. felt like a natural aristocracy thing, like signaling being a better kind of human
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
This was decidedly not my experience of Oxbridge. Was I hanging out with the peasants, then?
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Replying to @lela_eight
i imagine there's a lot of variation, i only experienced a small slice of christ's college for a year
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